Before starting your journal Establish key information about your journal Look at the journal market in your subject area(s) and think about how your journal will contribute to the […]
Can my students read my books? Guidance for academics on negotiating contracts with publishers
Background: what’s the problem? [This section adapted with thanks from the University of York Library’s Twitter thread] If you’re writing an academic book, you presumably want your students to read […]
Open access and social justice – structural equity and inclusion
For the third of our blog posts for Open Access Week, we are looking at how open access as a means of social justice. This post was previously published on this blog […]
A short introduction to open access monographs
Background: open access in the humanities and social sciences Most humanities and social sciences research output is in the form of monographs, whereas the sciences mainly show their output in […]
Open access and health
For this third day of open access-related blog posts, we are looking at how open access can be of benefit to healthcare around the world. “…it is only through removing […]
Open access and social justice
For the second of our blog posts for Open Access Week, we are looking at how open access as a means of social justice. “Everyone has the right freely to […]
Open access and the REF
This week (22nd-28th October 2018) is Open Access Week. As part of this, we are publishing a series of posts on this blog that are all about open access: what […]